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Sandscott
Guest
Let me begin by thanking Mr.Vestal for bringing 80's hair bands back to West Tennessee. Mr.Rivers was doing a good job of playing some of those bands on the Shut Up and Rock Show for several months but unfortunately did away with the five o'clock request show. I will begin with Mr.Rivers. I understand you doing away with the show because you claimed you were getting a lot of repeat requests from the lunchtime hour to the five o'clock program. However, I think the station seems to forget many of us work during the day and never got to hear the lunchtime request show. To me it was simple, just don't play the same requests at five that you do at twelve. Everyday I always hear a few songs classic rock radio never plays anymore. I think what bothers me is that I was always hearing request for things like Sweet, more Alice Cooper, Triumph, UFO, etc clearly showing the interest was there, but now it is back to the same old, same old. I don't get that.
Anyway, I want to comment about SL100 adding the House of Hair and 80's rock in general. I was born in 1971 meaning that I was too young to really appreciate the 70's bands fully. Don't get me wrong, I love 70's rock now, but I am much more a child of the 80's. Classic rock radio has always done a poor job of expanding its playlists and frankly 80's pop and 80's hard rock is the only thing memorable from that decade because classic rock never adapted. For someone like me, my peak music years are from 1980-thru the early 90's. I would rather hear someone like Ratt or Judas Priest than the Beatles or Led Zeppelin and there are many people like me because if you are in your early to mid and even late 30's, you missed out on the classic rock period but are too old to care about new rock. For years radio has ignored my age group all together which is why I mainly listen to satellite radio. At least with Mr.Vestal adding two hours of hair bands, I get a small dose of my era. Frankly, I think there needs to be a lot more but classic rock is insistent on playing the same twenty or thirty bands and the same tired 200 songs over and over again.
Anyway, I want to comment about SL100 adding the House of Hair and 80's rock in general. I was born in 1971 meaning that I was too young to really appreciate the 70's bands fully. Don't get me wrong, I love 70's rock now, but I am much more a child of the 80's. Classic rock radio has always done a poor job of expanding its playlists and frankly 80's pop and 80's hard rock is the only thing memorable from that decade because classic rock never adapted. For someone like me, my peak music years are from 1980-thru the early 90's. I would rather hear someone like Ratt or Judas Priest than the Beatles or Led Zeppelin and there are many people like me because if you are in your early to mid and even late 30's, you missed out on the classic rock period but are too old to care about new rock. For years radio has ignored my age group all together which is why I mainly listen to satellite radio. At least with Mr.Vestal adding two hours of hair bands, I get a small dose of my era. Frankly, I think there needs to be a lot more but classic rock is insistent on playing the same twenty or thirty bands and the same tired 200 songs over and over again.